Buried Accounts

They didn’t just take her money. They took her existence.

Victor Shaw follows money the way other people follow instinct. The former FBI forensic accountant was pushed out for being “difficult”—for refusing to bury a fraud case that implicated a senator. Now he traces financial crimes for a covert unit, and his latest investigation has led him to Blossom Springs, where shell companies and false charities hide something far more sinister.

Claire Donovan hasn’t legally existed for five years. When she stumbled onto the wrong financial records, the syndicate didn’t kill her—they erased her. Her identity destroyed, her records wiped, her existence reduced to cash jobs and borrowed names. She’s been a ghost ever since, surviving on the margins and following a thread that might finally prove she was real.

That thread leads to the same place Victor is hunting. He deals in documentation and proof. She exists without either. Trusting her means operating on faith, not evidence—something Victor has never learned to do.

But Claire’s years as a ghost have made her the perfect witness to crimes no one else survived. Her forensic skills match Victor’s obsession with detail. And the syndicate that erased her is about to discover that some things can’t be buried forever.

Restoring her identity means exposing them both. In a world of hidden accounts, the most valuable thing might be the truth.